Elizabeth Wright (swimmer) explained

Elizabeth Wright
Birth Date:9 November 1979

Elizabeth Wright (born 9 November 1979) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer who won one bronze at the 1996 Summer Paralympics and a bronze and silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.[1] She also has a Master of Philosophy in fine arts (photography).

Early life

Wright was born on 9 November 1979,[2] and is from the New South Wales town of Cooranbong.[3] She was born with a congenital limb deficiency. Her right arm is missing at the elbow, her right leg is "severely shortened" requiring the use of a prosthesis and she is lacking two fingers and the forearm bone of her left hand.[4]

Swimming career

Wright's swimming career at the highest level lasted for seven years.[5] Her classification during this time was S6.[6] She swam for the Gosford Amateur Swimming Club.[7] and was a New South Wales Institute of Sport swimmer.[8] She attended the opening of the Wesley Mission's Mangrove Mountain Retreat swimming pool.[9] At the 1996 Atlanta Games she won a bronze medal in the Women's 50 m Butterfly S6 event.[1] In January 2000, she attended the Australia Day Celebrations in Forest Park as a Paralympic Ambassador.[10] She competed in the 2000 Sydney Games where she won a silver medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S6 event, and a bronze medal as part of the Australian women's team in the 4 x 50 m Freestyle Relay.[1]

Academic career

Wright first attended the University of Newcastle in 2003 at her mother's urging to explore her love of art in that setting.[5] She enrolled in the university's Open Foundation program,[5] which is intended for students over twenty years old who are entering university for the first time,[11] before transitioning to Central Coast campus to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts.[5] She studied abroad at University of Leeds in her third year at the university.[5] In 2008, she attended the University of Newcastle, where she completed a Master of Philosophy in Fine Art (Photography).[4] [5] She later attended the University of Leeds as a Doctorate of Philosophy student doing research in the fine arts.[12] At the Canadian Association for Women's Public History Conference, "Women’s Bodies in a Public History Context" in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, she presented a paper titled "self (un)contained: revealing the authentic experience of disability within a feminist context".[12] She had a paper published in the University of Edinburgh’s Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts titled "My Prosthetic and I: identity representation in bodily extension."[12] Currently Wright is working with the overseas disability charity CBM as their Sports Ambassador.[13] She is also the founder and editor of Conscious Being, a magazine "by disabled women, for disabled women".[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elizabeth Wright . Paralympic.org . . 31 January 2013.
  2. Book: Media guide : 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games. Australian Paralympic Committee. Australian Paralympic Committee. Sydney, Australia. 2000.
  3. Web site: Newcastle Herald Index. 15 November 2011. Newcastle Herald. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120414192156/http://www.lakemac.infohunt.nsw.gov.au/library/lhist/herald/Events_1.html. 14 April 2012.
  4. Web site: About Elizabeth . Wright, Elizabeth . 14 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162552/http://www.elizabethwright.net/about-elizabeth.html . 25 April 2012 .
  5. Web site: University of Newcastle . 15 November 2011 . THE FINE ART OF SUCCESS . 8 . 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111201042227/http://newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Marketing%20and%20Public%20Relations/Publications/PDFs/Teaching-and-Learning-2008.pdf . 1 December 2011 .
  6. Web site: The Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games . Australian Institute of Sport . 15 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110329075613/http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2001/ascpub/annualreport/sydneyp.asp . 29 March 2011 .
  7. Web site: Gosford Amateur Swimming Club. Gosford Amateur Swimming Club Handbook. 15 November 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162403/http://www.gosfordstingrays.com.au/GosfordStingraysHandbookupdated.pdf. 25 April 2012.
  8. Web site: NSWIS Olympic and Paralympic Medallists . New South Wales Institute of Sport . 14 November 2011 . 2 . 2000 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110813144257/http://www.nswis.com.au/assets/olympic/Olympic%20Paralympic%20Medallists.pdf . 13 August 2011 .
  9. Web site: Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games . 12 October 2000 . 15 November 2011 . 9191 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110330222315/https://parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20001012004 . 30 March 2011 .
  10. Web site: 15 November 2011 . Rotary History . Rotary International, Epping . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110703131529/http://www.rotarnet.com.au/users/9/96814/epping/History/HIST_9900.htm . 3 July 2011 .
  11. Web site: Who Can Apply? Open Foundation . University of Newcastle . 15 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111203062011/http://www.newcastle.edu.au/students/foundation-studies/open-foundation/who-can-apply.html . 3 December 2011 .
  12. Web site: High flying graduates in Arts and Health . University of Newcastle . 15 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110415091039/http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/artshealth/research/artshealth-graduates.html . 15 April 2011 .
  13. Web site: Olympic Medalist becomes CBM's Paralympics Sports Ambassador. 15 November 2011. CBMUK. 1 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120401235208/http://www.cbmuk.org.uk/news/olympic-medalist-becomes-cbms-paralympics-sports-ambassador. dead.
  14. Web site: Conscious Being – Medium.

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